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F. S. TOWLE. BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 499,898. Patented June 20, 1893.

TOHNEY.

9 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX S. TOWLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JAMES E. HAMMIILL,

OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,898, dated June 20,1893. Application filed January 23, 1893- Serial No 45 9,402. (Nomodel.)

.To all whom it may concern: the manufacture, showing a raised centralBe it known that I, FELIX S. TOWLE, a cit-iportion containing atransverse groove to rezen of the United States, and a resident of Newceive the middle portion of the wire bail; Fig.

York, in the county of New York and State of 3 a central verticalsection of same on the New York,haveinvented certain new and use dottedline 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 a top view 55 f ul Improvements inBottle-Stoppers, of which of same showing the Wire bail in place, thisthe following is a specification. view representing the tin cap after ithas The invention relates to improvements in been subjected to thesecond operation in the bottle stoppers or caps, and particularly tomanufacture, viz: the moving of the opposite the class of stoppers orcaps in which the sides of the central elevated portions of the 60stopper consists of a tin disk secured to a cap toward each other toclose the transverse swinging bail and adapted to be looked upon grooveover the wire bail; Fig. 5 a central the mouth of the bottle or jar by alever. vertical section of same on the dotted line Heretofore the tincap has been secured to 55 of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a detached centheswinging bail by means of a grooved disk tral vertical section on anenlarged scale of 6 soldered at its opposite edges to the top of the thecentral portion of the sheet metal cap cap and inclosing between itselfand said cap showing by solid lines the form of same afthe middleportion of the bail. It is intended ter the first operation in themanufacture and that the tin cap shall be loose on the bail so by dottedlines the condition of the transverse as to be capable of turning freelythereon. groove after the second operation in the manu- 70 My presentinvention relates particularly facture. to a new means for securing thetin cap to the The essential features of the invention remiddle part ofthe swinging bail, and its oblate to the sheet metal cap A and the wireject is to obviate certain defects in the caps bail B, and these willpreferably be secured 2 5 or stoppers as heretofore made. to the neck ofthe bottle or jar by the well 5 The method heretofore in use of securingknown form of lever shown. The cap A is the tin cap to the swinging bailby a soldered formed from a single piece-of metal with the disk isdefective in many particulars, and it elevated central portion a, thetransverse may be mentioned that the preparing and solgroove 1), andtheencompassing bearing dering of the disk involves an undue expense flanged, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, which 80 and that in applying said diskthe solder freshow thecondition of the cap after the first quentlyenters the groove for the bail and operation in its manufacture. Thetransfastens the latter so that thecap will not turn verse groove 19 isof a size adapting it to thereon, thus rendering the structure useless.freely receive the middle portion of the wire In accordance with myinvention I remedy bail B, whose lower depending ends are piv- 85 theforegoing defects and objections and prootally secured in the usualmanner. duce a stopper in which the soldered disk is After the cap A hasbeen produced in the wholly dispensed with the wire bail secured formshown in Figs. 2 and 3, the bail B is by integral portions of the tincap being placed in the transverse groove 19 and there closed over itsmiddle portion. properly secured by pressing the opposite 0 Theinvention will be more fully undersides of thecentral elevated portion atoward stood from the detailed description hereinafeach other, thusclosing the groove b around ter presented, reference being had to theacthe bail and firmly securing the latter in place, companying drawings,in which as shown'by dotted lines in Fig. 6 and solid Figure 1 is acentral vertical section of the lines in Figs. 4 and 5. The pressingtoward upper portion of a bottle or jar having apeach other of theopposite sides of the cenplied thereto a stopper or cap constructed intral elevated portion aconstitutes the second accordance with andembodying the invenand final operation in the manufacture, and tion.Fig. 2 is a detached top View of the tin hence it will be seen that bythe two opera- 5o cap as it appears after the first operation in tionsthe cap is formed and secured to the hail without the use of solder orthe extra disk heretofore employed to hold the bail and cap together.

By means of my invention the method of 5 manufacturing the stopper isrendered more eflioient andlgreatly simplified and cheapened,

and the stopper as an article of manufacture:

is improved and enhanced in value.

What I claim as my invention, and desire ,m to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In a bottle stopper and cap having the central portion a andclosedtransverse groove 1) the whole being formed of one piece of metal,combined withthewire bail B held in said groove; substantially as andfor the purposes I 5 set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 26th day of.

November, A. D. 1892.

FELIX s. 'TOWLE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. C. GILL, E1). D. MILLER.

